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Principal Software Architect, Platform Engineering

United States, Redmond Employment contract 165600.00 - 296400.00 USD / Year · Job Posted July 13, 2026
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Come build, from scratch, the AI-first developer platform that lets thousands of engineers ship faster and safer. We're a new Platform Engineering team building an internal developer platform, golden paths, and the developer experience for the Microsoft engineering teams behind the world's largest and most complex commerce platforms. Empower the teams that build the copilots and agents that tens of thousands of sellers, partners, and support people rely on around the world every day — global scale and reach with unbounded opportunity to make meaningful impact. The mandate is real, and the appetite is there, from leaders and teams: take the KTLO and toil out of engineers' days, make safe deployment the easy path, and make agent-driven workflows the default for how we build. We run the platform as a product — teams pick it up because it's useful, not because they're told to. What's open is the technical frontier: agents change what a platform can even do. A platform used to be bounded by what you could deterministically wire across systems, with the gaps left to people to glue by hand. Now agents can carry that ambiguous, cross-system work, and building greenfield, we get to work out how much more a platform can take on. If you'd rather ship and learn than ask permission, and you're as curious about what teams and work become in this shift as you are about the tech itself, this is the rare seat where you get to define the thing, not just run it.

Job Responsibility

  • Work with product teams to find the highest-leverage places to modernize onto the platform, and shape the future-state architecture together
  • Prototype and build. Write the proof-of-concept, the reference implementation, and the code that de-risks the hard calls
  • Pair with product teams and forward-deployed architects on their toughest problems, contributing designs and maintainable code others build on
  • Own how systems compose on the platform — the cross-cutting dependencies, sequencing, and interfaces — and keep it coherent in the code, not just the design docs
  • Own outcomes as a DRI: take on-call for what you help ship, mentor the engineers you work with, and hold reliability, observability, and performance as systems move
  • Feed what you learn on the hardest problems back into the platform, so the golden paths get better and the next team has it easier
  • Bring agents into the work where they earn it: the migration and integration they can own, and the guardrails for the parts they can't

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python — OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire / transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Hands-on experience using generative AI and agents to build production software
  • Experience building and operating complex systems, platforms, or cloud infrastructure at scale, including hands-on re-architectures or migrations
  • Depth in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure, including CI/CD (Azure a plus)

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